CANNELTON – Cannelton high-school students starting a new school year today will see a new social-studies teacher and two familiar administrators will be working under new titles.

The city’s school board voted at an Aug. 2 meeting to employ Adam Figg as the teacher and assistant varsity boys basketball coach. Dan Freed is now academic dean and Brian Garrett is administrative assistant to the principal.

CANNELTON – Mulzer Park in Derby will soon become the latest park owned by the Perry County Parks and Recreation Department.

The department has been operating the park for years, leasing it from Mulzer Crushed Stone. The lease has expired, so Perry County Recreation Director Adam Tempel told the parks board Wednesday, “We approached them about renewing the lease or turning the park over to us, and they have notified us they are turning it over to us.”

New directional signs were installed Thursday at five Main Street intersections in Tell City, offering arrows and relative distances to businesses, government offices and local attractions in the city.

Television ratings for the current Summer Olympic Games are up 9 percent over the last ones and are dwarfing those of other sports and non-sports programming.
That means millions have been watching heavy doses of swimming and track, two sports normally seen in prime time on network TV only during the Olympics.
Could the huge interest in these Olympic sports translate into increased interest and turnouts for area high school swimming and track teams?